Top 1200 Preventive War Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent.

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.